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Rh :And of the cities of Judah: 'They shall be built,
 * And I will raise up the waste places thereof';
 * That saith to the deep: 'Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers';
 * That saith of Cyrus: 'He is My shepherd,
 * And shall perform all My pleasure';
 * Even saying of Jerusalem: 'She shall be built';
 * And to the temple: 'My foundation shall be laid.'


 * Thus saith the to His anointed,
 * To Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,
 * To subdue nations before him,
 * And to loose the loins of kings;
 * To open the doors before him,
 * And that the gates may not be shut:
 * I will go before thee,
 * And make the crooked places straight;
 * I will break in pieces the doors of brass,
 * And cut in sunder the bars of iron;
 * And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
 * And hidden riches of secret places,
 * That thou mayest know that I am the ,
 * Who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.
 * For the sake of Jacob My servant,
 * And Israel Mine elect,
 * I have called thee by thy name,
 * I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me.
 * I am the, and there is none else,
 * Beside Me there is no God;
 * I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me;
 * That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
 * That there is none beside Me;
 * I am the ; and there is none else;
 * I form the light, and create darkness;
 * I make peace, and create evil;
 * I am the, that doeth all these things.


 * Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
 * And let the skies pour down righteousness;
 * Let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation,
 * And let her cause righteousness to spring up together;
 * I the have created it.


 * Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker,
 * As a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth!
 * Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it: 'What makest thou?'
 * Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'?
 * Woe unto him that saith unto his father.' Wherefore begettest thou?'
 * Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?'


 * Thus saith the ,
 * The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
 * Ask Me of the things that are to come;
 * Concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands, command ye Me.
 * I, even I, have made the earth,
 * And created man upon it;
 * I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens,
 * And all their host have I commanded.